Amanda Lamb (born 19 July 1972) is an English television presenter, property expert and former model who is notable for presenting A Place in the Sun (from 2001 until 2009) and You Deserve This House. She has also had notable appearances on various television programmes as a panellist or as a guest on shows such as The Games, Harry Hill's TV Burp and Pointless Celebrities.
Early life and early career Amanda Lamb was born in Portsmouth and was brought up in Havant, Hampshire. She worked as an estate agent in Havant and part-time as a barmaid for five years before becoming a model.
Career Modelling In 1994, she took over the role of the "Scottish Widow" from Deborah Moore in a long-running series of advertisements for the investment company, Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance Society. David Bailey once asked Lamb to glide across the screen wearing roller skates in a scene which never made the final cut. Lamb's final advert and her favourite was called "The Lighthouse", this contract lasted ten years.
Television In 2001, Lamb became the main presenter of the Channel 4 programme A Place in the Sun. She also presented Hot Shots, an Epson-funded programme about digital photography, shown on Discovery Real Time, which was notable as being the last television appearance of photographer Patrick Lichfield.
She competed in the reality television show The Games in March 2006. Lamb then returned to filming A Place in the Sun, in which she still appears.
She co-hosted the cookery programme Market Kitchen (Good Food) and regularly appears on The Wright Stuff (Channel 5) and on Family Super Cooks (Watch).
In 2011, Lamb filmed the first of three series of My Flat-Pack Home for the Home Channel. In March 2012, she began presenting You Deserve This House, a new Channel 4 daytime show in which the homes of 'community heroes' are secretly refurbished.
From 2014 to 2018, Lamb presented a prime-time property show on More4 called Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb. On 20 August 2020, she announced on Instagram that she would be presenting a new show called My Mortgage Free Home. This was to air in 2023.
Personal life Lamb married Mike Carter in 1998; they divorced in 2003. Lamb married cameraman Sean McGuinness at Babington House, Somerset, in 2012, June 2012 separated 2025. They have two daughters, Willow Rose (born in February 2009) and Lottie (born in July 2013).
In 2007, Lamb bought a flat in the medieval town of Nardò in the Apulia region, southern Italy.
Lamb has supported the charities Mind, Cancer Research and Shelter.
She lives in London.
Filmography
Television +Year(s)ProgrammeRoleNotes2001–2009A Place in the SunHerselfPresenter2002TV Mail2003RI:SEGuest2004–2006Richard & JudyGuest, 4 episodes2005The Weakest LinkContestant & WinnerHot ShotsPresenter, 9 episodes2006The GamesPanellist, 8 episodes2006–2013Loose WomenGuest panelist, 4 episodes2006–2018The Wright StuffGuest panellist, 98 episodes2007Celebrity Big Brother's Big MouthGuest, 2 episodesMarket KitchenGet Me the Producer3 Minute WonderSize Matters: Celebrities on the Scales2008An Audience with Neil DiamondAudience memberHow TV Changed Britain2009–2010Angela and FriendsGuest presenter, 4 episodesCountdownDictionary Corner2009Pride of Britain Awards2010Street Market ChefsPresenter, 3 episodesGMTVGreatest Christmas TV AdsPresenter2010–2011DaybreakCompetition presenter, 11 episodes2011My Flat Pack HomePresenterAl Murray's Compete for the MeatContestant2012Harry Hill's TV BurpGuest role in final episodeYou Deserve This HousePresenter2012–2013Sunday BrunchGuest, 2 episodes2013What's Cooking? From the Sainsbury's KitchenGuest2014Weekend Kitchen with Waitrose2014–2017WeekendGuest, 2 episodes2014–2018Selling Houses with Amanda LambPresenter2015LorraineGuest, 1 episodeFlockstarsContestantCelebrity Fifteen to One2016The Saturday ShowPresenter, 2 episodes2017Pointless CelebritiesPanellist2018When Award Shows Go Horribly WrongRunner-up: Miss Leigh Park 1986Saturday Morning with James MartinGuest, 2 episode2019Kirstie's Celebrity Craft MastersGuest, 1 episodeCelebrity ChaseContestant2020Jeremy VineThis Morning2020–2021My Mortgage Free HomePresenter, 11 episodes2021Moment of Truth2022, 2024Richard Osman's House of Games2022Holiday Homes in the SunCo-presenter with JB Gill & Sam Pinkham2024Sunshine Getaways with Amanda LambCo-presenterwith JB Gill & Sam PinkhamRobin Elliot TonightGuestAir Fryers Made EasyHerself1 episode2025Jimmy and Shivis Farmhouse BreakfastGuest1 episode 2026AmandalandHerselfComic Relief special
Podcasts
+YearProgrammeRoleNotes2026The Harry Hill ShowHerselfGuest
References
External links
Bio at Channel 4 Homes